St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 22, 1907

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Him Where Brockhoff | WELL HOPE THE muffs, furs ana|"Use car roared, its headlights boring | in. two young women. loined while he was playing in the pool} It is against the rulés to &o through | ening carrying about one hundred and | Kicked Her. After dark a heavy fog came on and the/| and women rushed from the stat

Finding their steamer was safe for the time, sighted a private watchman and had POLICEMAN SHOOTS AT HIM 10 PROSECUTE POLICEMAN aa sect =“ Peso oe % raed ex sctinn Gl b D tf 169 66 the crew turned their attention to the eo ceveter. oh ne ela i gnable We findfher,.and, weak stubs ook ODe-L/E MOCTAL «+ « | task of rescuing the Columbte’s passen= ferred a counter charge against her. Mystery E , aaa th Fact That Appears in Court as Special Attor- | nausted, returned to the canoe, now : : | gers, and about eighty, who swam te They Get Into Sccond Row. J - xpiained Dy Fac ney Against Patro] some distance downstream, and guided R bi; 104 — pf wee ood eg brea 2th ee ents Saturday afternoon Mrs. Buckhart The Pistol Was Loaded Bay MY strOunan it to a point near the other PO gs €pu {C *e@0e8t @ @ @.@ on board. laughed at -rockhoff because he was With Blanks Humphrey. The occupants of the second canoe. Boats were launched and a number to appear in court, and they came again anks. Representative Frank Ferris. former| fearing an accident, did not attctmt: : of others who had cluig to the wr to blows. Brockhoff declared on the Morris Feldman, a second-hand deal- | State Senator. appeared Monday as spe-| take the two on board, but helped the age were taken on board. F f stand that Mrs. Bucknhart hit him “a “3 ot mat North Seventh street, had & | cial prosecutor in the trial of Policeman |drenched and gasping girl -to keep her c Survivors emong the passengers a powerful blow,’’ and satd he got all the me which he thought should be | Thomas Humphrey, charged with the! piace until a flat- bottomed boat, mahione Sunday Post-Dis atch Fxcess: the Columbia say that the San ream “ee worst of both encounters. ed. He appealed to Policeman To-| murder of Daneil Guy, an ambulance} owner had put out from the shore, 75 Pp - [Was not coon unt) Gre pues Sa Judge O’Hallaron decided that Brock- | '™*8*° ©f the Carr Street District, fur-! ariver. feet away, took her anda mien an ea me the fog curtain less than ab Lhe hoff had been the aggressor ,and dis- ana a an with « revolver. Farris’ presence in the case was not} board : Over Repub'ic eee 8 @ @ 48 Cols. ict away ond RS eae Sa missed the charge against Mrs. Buck- ae ee afmed carefully and oo explained by Assistant acre een Sie Before leaving Union Station for the passenger steamer. Why the fog hart. She left the courtroom with a iti poy instead of falling igre: Jones, who was expected to act as pros- | scene of the tragedy, Benham related Over Giobe-Democrai 13 ad were not ,heard is not made char. _geore of women friends who had gone bothered ft. ead as though a fly Mac ecutor. to a Post-Dispatch reporter the fore- é e°@ | The San Pedro drifted around to watch the outcome of the case, and ful slumbe and closed its eyes in peace- When the case was called in Judge | 60in& account of the tragedy. leony for twe hous: een Se who congratulated her effusively. “la és a Sale’s court, Joseph Mec oy, Humphrey's Miss Ledwidge was an orphan and ed and the water-logged ship © Brockhoff, a slender nervous man, re- ont see how I missed him,” sald liawyer, asked Deputy Sheriff Hauch; ved with her stemother, Mrs. Susan wht d bere “ut & tn ed ‘ é . which threw ra Tomasso, walk foot of mained to pay his fines. the horse's ice tas ‘rene Pocibap The | Wether service had been obtained on Ledwidge. She was 18 years old. The -4 \ William Reeves of 1254 Old Manchester | ¢dwidge family ts ine eerndyte in Hot € f, OUIS é} c ants prs ares ; 5 horse shook its head and seemed to WEDS TEN MINUTES BEFORE ioral {| Springs, where they formerty lived smile at Tomasso. n being told tha Miss Winenow, who is the daughter eur . Reeves had Sica Well, I'll be—oh, the manual. the “ not been found, MeCoy | UNDERGOING AN OPERATION manual,” exclaimed Tomasso as Police- asked a continuance until Aug. 12, of John Winenow, connected with the one SEé ° . aaa bak Medien eevee a mente “nee which was granted. iene Station ticket office, said Mon- ° lags Kentucky Pair Marry in Infirmary |make a dent.” Cireult Attorney Sager sald that he ommet Mr. Benh re ' 2 in Which Bridegroom Is “You need target practice,” said Shel- understood Farris had Been retained to ane cnc a and Miss Led- P , es 4 ; ee, —?p tient. ton, taking the revolver from Tomasso | #!4 the prosecution in the Humphrey he tak ta thes noetng. Miss Led- OS - {Spa r +4 As ~ O Se a a and firing. The horse started to walk |°®%¢, bY whom he dia not know, but in the stern and } ow, Mr. Benham was Special to the Post-Dixpa away. that he had not been officially so not!- ae “gt tm Sat in the middle. We Gl, b D crat ss # 67 oe (4. MOUISVILLE, Ky., “duly %-—Ben - vi. “What do you think of that?’ ex-| "ed. It is his understanding that f0T-] sinned on a dies Ty OO wpe 3 Oo € €mo " Davis of Louisville and Miss Maud Vo- glabaca T mer Se omasso, ‘The horse is- bullet er senator Dave Ne ‘son, Farris’ law , of Bu Ky, " ee No W R bl 48 ries rgin, y.. Were married at proof. partner, is to aid d him in thie come “Quick <a aires mn Bess é€pu a _ - -_-_ = 6. Joseph's Infirmary this morning Sheltan th . en dre wn revolver ————_——— only 1 minutes before the ‘bridegroom |and killed the * a ei ns Jury Holds ‘Rasor-Wellder. the water. I was under the boat and ‘wae placed on the table to be operated | Feldman's be ed his re- A Coroner's jury Monday held John had my hand on it and Mr. Benham was h for appendicitis.’ He was stricken eae eerew Shellenberger respo th | holding me by the arm. eded Be ost- ring he yesterc volver on the Fourth of July and loaded | (+ William Cronin “ving nat ag 6 in getting Miss Ledwidge ae — alt ly Cause the FP f Dispatch bri Ss t m_ ° buyers for their merchandise.

it with blank ms cartridges. cut wit ha razor in a boarding house | the overturned boat and would have fight at 4338 Clayton avenue Saturday had me up there in & minute, but Miss night. Witnesses said that he and Cro- | Ledwidge attempted to siide up just @ little higher, and agais fell inte

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